Did we use to work together? Because I've been one of those poor DBAs to inherit a system that was not using utf8mb4 charsets, and sure damn enough an emoji too

Did we use to work together? Because I've been one of those poor DBAs to inherit a system that was not using utf8mb4 charsets, and sure damn enough an emoji took down said system for hours affecting every client on the books. Perhaps ;) My first major project out of current job was spending two months figure out why our system doesn't support emojis. And MySQL was the blame, I want my two months back.